Espanol!

Today’s Spanish class was almost like the one on Tuesday. Being the only one who can really understand what the teacher is saying, I suddenly became everyone else’s “tutor”, answering questions from almost everyone around me. While it felt good to be helping the rest understand the class, it kinda made me unable to pay attention to some of the things that the teacher was saying. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. At the end of the class, while I stayed behind to try to explain some grammatical concept to one of my classmates, my teacher came by and asked if the class is too easy for me. I would have answered yes, but in order not to hurt the pride of the Chinese students, I have to say the class is OK. True enough, the Chinese students all said that the class is very difficult. Thank God I knew what to say.

It’s great that Sarah and Angel are in town now. Too bad I have to attend the Spanish class, otherwise it would have been great to see them.

I think that life is just like choosing a module – during the add/drop period you look around, trying this, trying that. And when you think it’s nice, you decide to take it. But after a while, things turn out to be crappy and hard to bear, but the add/drop period is over and you can’t drop it, so you are stuck with it. Then whenever you have to face it (like doing the tutorials for the module), you moan and whine and try to get it over and done with. And at the end of the exam, when you can finally “drop” the module, you become very happy, but at the same time very vengeful because you hated it so much and you start to tell everyone how rubbish the module has been and avoid it like the plague. When you get the results and discovered that actually you didn’t do so badly for it, you start to take those words back and comment that actually it wasn’t that bad, but you would have still chosen not to have done it if given a chance.

Too philosophical? Oh well, I’m just moaning.

Wednesday.

Had to drag myself out of bed this morning to go for the financial management class. Today my mind seemed to be wandering all over the place and I really couldn’t concentrate. Somehow managed to endure till the end of lessons and went for an early lunch before making my way back home to grab my stuffs and go to work. Didn’t really have much to do today, except spending some time preparing for the meeting tomorrow. Don’t know what to expect and I hope everything’s going to turn out fine.

Went to the Chinatown restaurant at Zunyi Road to meet Poon Onn for the filming of our NCS marketing video. As usual, Poon Onn amazed us with lots of his witty philosophy and I am really enlightened by him. It’s always great to talk to him.

Two more weeks to go before weekend. This weekend is a busy one for all of us and I hope we can pull through alright.

I had a pretty frustrating and annoying experience with the security guards of the condominium that I’m working in. When I left office, two security guards stopped me and accused me for taking a shortcut through the condominium. I was absolutely stunned and I was very upset about it. I mean, if they asked nicely where I’m from perhaps I may not be so upset (even though I still will because I’ve been working in this place for almost a year and they don’t even bother to try to recognise the people who come into the condominium everyday), but to accuse me of taking a shortcut was about the last thing that I was prepared to accept. I hit back and them and gave them a bad telling off, saying that I’ve been here for a year and how come they don’t even bother to make the effort to know the people who come into the condominium. It totally ruined my evening – if not for the fact that I met Poon Onn just now my evening would have been totally wrecked. This incident prompted me with two thoughts:

1. Why do the locals like to accuse people of doing something rather than try to find out the truth?

2. Why are they so nonchalant about the work, have no pride in their work, and don’t even bother to do the basic things?

To be honest, I do not just feel annoyed, I felt insulted. I could understand they were trying to do their job, but what I can’t stand is that their attitude. True enough I’ve learned to take a lot of such crap coming out from the locals, but this is a last straw. I couldn’t stand people accusing me of things that I did not do – this is a matter of principles. And I am so going to complain to the management office about this issue. The condominium I work in is generally a nice place. I like the people at the clubhouse, but I just can’t stand the security guards. They are just so annoying – I really ran out of ideas to permanently let them know that I work in the condominium. Is it that they have a problem with me?

I wonder if I can sue them for “psychological damages”.